preg_match being touchy, not working properly?

[devknob]

This works in my preg_match_all():

$gamesRegex = '#<h4>(.*?)<#i';

 

This doesnt work in my preg_match_all();

$gamesRegex = '#<h4>(.*?)<br clear="left">#i';

 

Any idea why? anything after the < is causing it not to work, which I cant understand because other preg_matches are working with < and letters afterwards.

 

[cags]

What input string are you testing it with?

[devknob]

It was the linebreaks.

 

just added this to the data i was trying to go through

str_replace("\n", "",$page);

 

[cags]

The fullstop doesn't match newline characters by default, you can change this using the s modifier.

 

$gamesRegex = '#<h4>(.*?)<br clear="left">#is';

[devknob]

ah, thanks =)